Cathedral Track and Field 2020

I put the invitation out for 15 minute Zoom meetings. If you haven’t checked yet, it is in your school email. My first one is today at noon.

Today’s workout: “In & Outs” (accelerate into a sprint, hold the sprint speed, and decelerate out of the sprint)

After our typical warm up, set up 4 cones/markers:
1) Start point of acceleration
2) Start of the sprint
3) End of the sprint
4) End of deceleration.

The acceleration and deceleration cones; put them 30 meters apart.
The sprint distance is up to you; anywhere from 40-80 meters.

Upon completion, walk back to the starting point repeat this cycle for 15 minutes.

Cool down and stretch.

Tomorrow is speed again, but with longer distance.

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up” – Babe Ruth
Hello to all,
What a simple quote, yet so true. Be the person who gets outside today, and puts forth the effort. In running, and often life it’s the person who simply doesn’t give up that gets the best results.
It’s Thursday, which means it’s a workout day. Make sure you hydrate well before taking on the workout. Please watch : 1. The “encouragement” video 2. Your respective training groups video , and lastly finish your workout with 30 minutes of stretching & foam rolling.
If you’re reading this you’re already halfway there. Keep it up! Now finish the other half by getting out the door and doing YOUR best.
God bless,
Coach Patrick

Outside for a short jog; 10-15 minutes.
“Yoga for sprinters” video.

Speed work tomorrow and Friday.

Hello!
Today is going to be an easy day. Hoping that all your workouts went well yesterday. I know the weather was a bit adverse, but hopefully you all managed. It can serve as a good lesson on how to run tough in adverse conditions, and also will make the good weather headed our way (eventually) even more enjoyable.
So today let the focus be recovery. After finishing your designed plan today, make sure and hydrate, foam roll, and stretch for 30 minutes.
The order of videos today are: 1. Your respective workout plan. 2. The “Parable talk” video. 3 The new core & mobility video. 4. jumpers add on the two new drills to your existing jump program found on March 30th. (Hopefully memorized by now).
Well, I am super proud of you all. I know you are giving this team a great effort, and you should be proud of yourselves. I know I am.
Two keys to success are: “one day at a time” and “bring a good attitude”. You do those two things and you’ll be successful today/ always.
God bless,
Coach Patrick

Good morning,

In all reality, the meet in Mora today probably would have been postponed today due to cold weather. I know that their coach, Chris Goebel, has put a threshold of 45 feel like temperature to compete outside. If you remember, we competed there either last year or the year before in their indoor facility due to cold weather.

So, my thoughts for “competing” today are up to you. Just know that I have adjusted my plans because of the weather temperatures for the varsity sprinters, jumpers, hurdlers, and vaulters to have a speed practice on Thursday and Friday of this week. We’ll go short sprints on Thursday and longer sprints on Friday. I just want to have better conditions for you to compete hard.

If you choose to compete today, do the same mental preparation and physical competition that we have done the past 2 simulated meets.

If you choose to wait on that, do the following:
Get your muscles warmed up properly (as usual). Go outside and run a handful of 40-60 meter sprints. I’ll leave that number up to you, but focus on your running form on each one. Really think about each foot strike, arm motion, body position (nice and tall), sprinters butt kick, knee drive, ankle dorsi-flexion and hip angle (like when we run with the sticks over our head).
After a cool down jog, come back inside and find a video on body weight only exercises and follow along with that along with stretching of course.

• Also, I plan to have Zoom meetings with you this week. Pay attention to your school email. I will invite small groups of no more than 5 at a time. They won’t be long meetings (maybe 10-15 minutes), but enough to see how you are doing. I understand that your teachers may have meetings set up, so I will set ours up accordingly. I know that time slots that us teachers have to work with.